Authorities say it wasn’t aliens but a janitor’s unsavory tastes that ultimately led to the closure of an observatory in southern New Mexico. The FBI shut down the Sunspot Observatory when that same janitor made veiled threats against the facility after federal agents seized a laptop he was using to access child pornography. The closure on Sept. 6 sparked international attention as authorities refused to release any details, while news outlets and conspiracy theorists filled in the blanks with rumors of geomagnetic storms, alien sightings and apocalyptic asteroids. or support me on Paypal via zoonpolitikon@mail.com